The self-hosted journey is finally coming to an end

After several months with GoDaddy's QuickBlog, I am finally moving over to a self-hosted IIS7 server running Community Server.

Today marks the final milestone of the move - switching the GoDaddy's nameservers for www.mvolo.com to point to the dynamic DNS nameservers of www.zoneedit.com. Here is the new setup:

Windows "Longhorn" Server running the IDX 1 build (coming soon to a theater near you)
IIS7 (of course!)
Community Server 2.1 "community edition" powered by SQL Server Express
All old posts and comments moved to the new blog (you will notice an additional "Posted on <date/time>" note on each old comment I moved over).
All old QuickBlog post and syndication urls permanently redirected to the corresponding CS urls.

Let me know if you have a old link or RSS reader subscription that is now broken, and I will make sure the redirection rules are updated.

Now that I have complete control of the web server, I can finally do what I had wanted to do all along - be able to demo cool IIS7 technology and modules on the same website where I write about them. Now that the move is out of the way, I wont have any excuses :)

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Update 12/21/2006 2:30 PM:
The DNS switch should be complete, and both mvolo.com and www.mvolo.com
should begin resolving over the next few hours. ZoneEdit's nameservers
are recovering from a DoS attack so they may be a bit flaky. If you continue experiencing
problems hitting the site, I would appreciate a quick note.
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Published 19 December 06 03:59 by Mike Volodarsky

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# Steve Schofield said on December 22, 2006 5:19 AM:: I'm excited to see what cool things you will be demo'ing! Steve Schofield Microsoft MVP - IIS
# Craig said on December 24, 2006 5:39 PM:: Your site isn't rendering correctly in FF - right panel is a bit messed up ;) thanks!
# Mike Volodarsky said on December 25, 2006 3:15 PM:: Fixed it, thanks for letting me know!
# Bill Brown said on January 12, 2007 12:26 PM:: We'll miss you, but I completely understand why you'd want to move! Dog food is yummy.
# Kevin Cornwell said on February 23, 2007 6:14 AM:: Is it difficult to make community server work as a blog only? I am looking for fast dot net blogging software and the full version of Community server is quite slow on my old box. Perhaps I need to play with the caching?
# IIS 7.0 Server-Side said on April 25, 2008 3:24 PM:: Ever since I started blogging about IIS 7.0, I had the plan to do it on a server that was running the

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For the past 5 years, I was the core Program Manager for Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 7.0 products. I drove the design and development of the IIS 7.0 web server core, the IIS FastCGI support, the AppCmd command line tool, the ASP.NET Integrated pipeline, and other special projects around server security, performance, and scalability. Now, I am working on my own on cutting edge web server tech on top of the Microsoft IIS platform, and continue blogging about it here.

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For the past 5 years, I was the core server Program Manager for the IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 products at Microsoft.
Now, I work on advanced web server tech using IIS 7.0, .NET, and Windows Server 2008 and write about it in this blog.

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TechNet Magazine
>Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0

MSDN Magazine
>IIS 7.0: Build Web Server Solutions with End-To-End Extensibility
>IIS 7.0: Enhance Your Apps with the Integrated ASP.NET Pipeline
>IIS 7.0: Explore The Web Server For Windows Vista And Beyond
>Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
>Fast, Scalable, and Secure Session State Management for Your Web Applications

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LeechGuard
IconHandler 2.0
DirectoryListing
HttpRedirection
IIS Auth for Wordpress
iisschema.exe
PortCheck.exe v2.0

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